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I was wondering too what are thoughts were on rotisserie drafting or sealed? From the experiences in our league, admining the whole thing is the hardest part, due to time zones and scheduling conflicts: and that was even with a second copy of the cube, and a fairly small number of drafters. I...

Probably just because its good in standard? We pulled one last night as well, and its ok: not a $10 card if you have access to other removal spells.

My money is on aston, since if you're boarding into a different deck that suggests you were losing g1 pretty consistently? He's also running a very consistent deck, that he's comfortable with.

I run capsule because its an artifact, and has a lot of interesting interactions with other parts of the cube, but otherwise would not run it. Four mana to draw 2 cards isn't a competitive rate for most cubes, and is pretty borderline here. I would not run it if your only reason is because it...

It would have looked more like this:

You can generate 10 mana naturally with bouncelands, which is close enough to mimicing the urzatron effect where I could see this working as a lock piece in certain control decks in the late game. Not sure if its healthy for the environment, but its not as crazy as it seems.

I could actually run that as a control finisher: interesting idea, I remember it from the days of UW triscuit tron (even though that deck was only good for the week after worlds)

Oh thank god, I just saw the post now and nearly flipped when I read it.

How do you guys feel about the limited so far? Compared to say RGD, triple innistrad, and Khans?

I think there might be a little bit of a misunderstanding when I say that he ran better than me, because so often the community invokes that idea unproductively, and it comes across as a little insulting to the opponent. I've been watching a lot of Jeff Hoogland streams a lot, and seeing the...

If you want to go over the games and make any technical criticisms i'm all ears. Though I figure you're probably just giving me a hard time, which is fine

Both Wumpus and Ink-eyes I think would have been pretty bad. They just didn't have much in the way of enablers, and I never actually missed them in any of the games. Looking at the lists, I think I actually had more mana smoothing than you, and capsule seems pretty similar to compulsive. I'm...

No, he was just running better than I was. Only the one game where I mulliganed to 5 was due to not having enough land. I was getting kind of land heavy hands, and you can see in all of those games I don't have problems hitting my land drops. I do get color screwed for a long time m1g2, which is...

Well aston won, going 3-0 with me getting only two points. Kind of dull games, with me unable to really ever put myself in a position where I could dictate the games tempo. I felt both decks were pretty equivalent, but he just ran much better than I did. Here is the deck

Grillo v. Aston Non-Red Draft Pack 1 Pack 2 Pack 3 Pack 4 Pack 5 Pack 6 Pack 7 Pack 8 Pack 9 Pack 10 Pack 11 Pack 12 Pack 13 Pack 14 Pack 15 Pack 16

The problem with the good stuff argument though is that those decks haven't been doing very well. Decks running reasonable cards and a coherent strategy are going to out perform decks prioritizing good cards over a coherent strategy. This is pretty consistent with RL draft results as well. But...

Yeah big congrats! Its been too long since we had a riptide cube up there: nice to see.

As much as I want to do well in this thing, theres some real culture shock transitioning from a high power format to a low power format, even a low power + like this one. I had a post here in my blog that I think explains why the transition can be so jarring. Relevant portions posted and edited...

I went through to pack 7, at which point things became too divergent to be helpful, but the deck you should have ended up in was a U/W/b deck. I think he was correct to go flickerwisp->blink->sorcerer off the bat, and the teachings->impulse line was fine: pretty close actually in power level...

I'll have to play the limited format first, but right now nothing is really jumping out at me either. Most of the (non obvious power max $$$$) cards seem fun but disjointed, and very picky about what environments they would want. Need to play the limited though to get a feel for some of these...